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[Blogpost] Indian ICPC 2019 Experience
By TheOneYouWant, history, 3 years ago, In English

Hi everyone,

I started writing a blog on my experience at the Indian ICPC Regionals of 2019-20 (the previous season as of this post) slightly more than a year back here. I stopped after 2 blogposts due to various reasons: World Finals not happening, our team losing interest in CP in general, and I kind of wanted to finish the series after the whole season arc was completed. With both my teammates retiring before this season and World Finals finally looking possible in October, I decided to revive it, so I would be able to publish a final post after WF and be done with this season :D. This seemed like the best time to post, since Amrita regionals has it's online round on 10th July, so many teams would probably be up-solving old regionals, and it might be interesting to compare how you performed vs how we did in the contest setting — what mistakes we made, and what you should avoid. It's also a nice way to preserve my memories, and to hype people up for onsite regionals hopefully, whenever they happen :).

You can read the blog here. Thanks to aryanc403 and Whiplash99 for "testing" the blogpost and making sure I didn't make major blunders!

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Thanks for reading, and hope the read is enjoyable! :)

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Thank you for not posting laser tag ranklist.

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Very nice posts! Looking forward to part 4!

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aryanc403 and Whiplash99, please share your testing experience of this blog. :P

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    Lol. Didn't have to do much. Tried to 'test' it consciously, but it was so fun to read that I was more interested in finding out what happened next, every time. It was more like an exclusive early access :P

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We played chess together the day before competition. Do you remember? And were glad to hear when you guys said from IIT-B.

Also, heard that your team won Asia-West few months later.

PS: Just some random guy cheering for your victory xD

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    Yeah, I think I remember — wasn't that in Kharagpur regionals? I remember blundering a knight in the second game and managing to scrape a draw, after which my teammates called me a washed chess player xD

    Thanks for the support, and for the games! :D We didn't win Asia West (we only won Amrita), but I'll expand on that in the next blogpost :)

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Really Amazing and Awesome !!!

Prelims got delayed due to Covid-19 this year and we got time to know more about ACM-ICPC and form team to participate in our first year itself.

Always has been a source of motivation for Me :-) Looking forward for more such posts ;-)

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